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Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner vs Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)

One is a wet food and the other dry. Their labels are not directly comparable, which is the whole reason to convert them first. There is a 66.0 percentage point gap in declared moisture between them.

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Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner

Friskies

wetadult78% moisture

Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)

Friskies

dryall life stages12% moisture

Nutrition, both ways

Left pair of columns is what each package prints. Right pair removes the water from both. The last column is the difference that survives the conversion.

NutrientA: as fedB: as fedA: dry matterB: dry matterGap
Crude protein ranking reverses11%30%50%34.1%15.9 pp
Crude fat ranking reverses5%12%22.7%13.6%9.1 pp
Crude fiber ranking reverses1.5%3%6.8%3.4%3.4 pp
Moisture78%12%----66.0 pp

Multipliers: Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner x4.5, Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors) x1.1.

What the numbers actually show

78% moisture against 12% means the printed numbers are describing different things entirely - one includes several times more water than the other.

This is a case where the raw labels point one way and the dry-matter figures point the other: Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner reads 11% protein on the package versus Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors) at 30%, but once water is removed the positions reverse (50% against 34.1%).

More than one nutrient reverses direction under conversion, which is a reliable sign that a side-by-side reading of the labels was never going to be informative.

Reading the two packages side by side without this conversion would have given the wrong answer on at least one nutrient.

Ingredients

Only in Pate Chicken and Liver Dinner

  1. Chicken broth
  2. Chicken
  3. Liver
  4. Meat by-products
  5. Tricalcium phosphate
  6. Carrageenan

Only in Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)

  1. Ground yellow corn
  2. Corn protein meal
  3. Chicken by-product meal
  4. Soybean meal
  5. Animal fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
  6. Wheat flour
  7. Meat and bone meal
  8. Animal liver flavor
  9. Fish meal
  10. Phosphoric acid
  11. Calcium carbonate
  12. Salmon meal
  13. Dried chicken flavored gravy
  14. Salt
  15. Choline chloride
  16. Zinc sulfate
  17. Ferrous sulfate
  18. Manganese sulfate
  19. Copper sulfate
  20. Calcium iodate
  21. Sodium selenite
  22. Potassium chloride
  23. DL-Methionine
  24. Vitamin E supplement
  25. Niacin
  26. Thiamine mononitrate
  27. Calcium pantothenate
  28. Riboflavin supplement
  29. Vitamin A supplement
  30. Pyridoxine hydrochloride
  31. Vitamin B-12 supplement
  32. Folic acid
  33. Biotin
  34. Vitamin D-3 supplement
  35. Menadione sodium bisulfite complex
  36. L-Tryptophan
  37. Red 40
  38. Yellow 5
  39. Blue 2

Declared by both

  1. Artificial and natural flavors
  2. Taurine

Sources

ProductSourceLast checked
Pate Chicken and Liver Dinnerhttps://www.friskies.com2026-10-31
Gravy Swirlers (Chicken, Salmon & Gravy Flavors)https://www.purina.com/cats/shop/friskies-gravy-swirlers-dry-cat-food2026-11-01
This page reports and converts label data. It does not rank these foods, does not recommend which to buy, and makes no claim about either one suiting your cat. Discuss dietary choices with your veterinarian.